A man from Washington state traveled to India to convert an isolated tribe.

Wade says, "There IS justice in this world! Praise be!"

“I hollered, ‘My name is John, I love you and Jesus loves you,’ ” he wrote in his journal. One of the juveniles shot at him with an arrow, which pierced his waterproof Bible, he wrote.58343

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“You guys might think I’m crazy in all this but I think it’s worthwhile to declare Jesus to these people,” he wrote in a last note to his family on Nov. 16, shortly before he left the safety of the fishing boat to meet the tribesmen on the island. “God, I don’t want to die,” he wrote.

Wade comments, "Why not? How do you expect to get into heaven, Dumbo??"

The so-called 'martyr' went to the island knowing he could be killed. His instincts told him he could very well be killed. A previous foray earned him an arrow that ended up striking his bible to serve as a warning. But he went back, invaded the island, and got himself killed anyway.

This was no act of the faith, but stupidity. Perhaps it is for the best he weeded himself out of the gene pool before breeding more of his kind.

When one considers the Jewish experience in Europe over the past thousand years, what stands out to me is the fact that even in the face of countless expulsions—expulsions from England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, and, well, you name the European country and it’s likely to have expelled the Jews at some point in its history—by the time Hitler came to power in the 1930s, there were still damn near 10 million Jews on the continent. That’s truly astounding. No matter the forced expulsions or the forced conversions (i.e., the influence of “outside forces”), the Jews held on to their identity, and to their desire to remain in Europe. Sure, it can be argued that for centuries they had nowhere else to go, but a weaker group would have just converted en masse.